Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Jessica Wille A sst. Professor Piano Stewart Wille Professor Piano Henry E. Malloy Professor Music Walter B. Roberts A.B. Professor Piano Margery Mitchell Professor Public School Music Clara L. Malloy Professor Violin Eunice Eyler Professor Theory and Composition Page Twenty-Six Lucile Felten Instructor Piano

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COMMERCE The reorganized and expanded Department of Commerce, will be a year old Wednesday, May 26. The enthusiastic response by the young people of western Kansas who want a business education has fully justified the steps taken to build up this part of the institution. Until about a year ago, the demand for commercial education was met satisfactorily by courses in Typewriting, Shorthand, Bookkeeping and Pen- manship. But the calls for more extensive training in commercial work in- creased. Some wished to teach commercial work in the high schools, while others wished to prepare for business positions. To many, the high fee charged by the business colleges, made this kind of training prohibitive. Numerous inquiries from business men themselves, emphasized the need for home study and extension classes in business administration. The present program is to place the work of this Department on a plane with what is being done in the best institutions. A survey just completed shows that this is actually being accomplished; that the standards in our department are as high, and the credit given for the work is as li beral as is found in the better institutions of the North Central Association. To ac- complish this result, four new faculty members have been added and me- chanical apparatus as extensive as is found in the best business colleges in- stalled. Mr. E. J. Montague, a graduate from the Department of Commerce of the Oregon Agricultural College, with extensive business experience in con- nection with the State of Kansas and the United States Government, was elected head of the Department and to give instruction in Higher Accoun- tancy, Farm Accounting, Banking, Salesmanship and Business Organization. Miss Ina McCurdy, a graduate from the University of Iowa with high school and business experience, was placed in charge of the Shorthand, Typewrit- ing and Office Training classes. Miss Edith Hoag from the Mt. Morris College and with two years experience as Principal of the high school and Head of the Commercial Department of the Osceola High School, was elected to handle the courses in Bookkeeping, Business Letter Writing, Commercial Law and Commercial Geography. Miss Ruth Thomas of Baker University was given the correspondence work in Shorthand and Typewriting and the added responsibility of class room assistant in Shorthand and Typewriting. Quick to catch the spirit of the institution, the activities of the depart- ment have been extended very rapidly. Most of the resident courses are being offered by correspondence. Large numbers are already enrolled for correspondence work in Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Commercial Law and Penmanship. Large extension classes in Shorthand and Sales- manship have been conducted with good results. The old theory that school teachers are poor business men and women is going to be refuted at the Fort Hays Normal School. The Department of Commerce does not believe the task will be difficult. A knowledge of good business methods will help the teacher be of greater service to a community and at the same time, will be a force for a better salary. Page Twenty-Five

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MUSIC To meet the need for music instruction for the western half of the State of Kansas, this Department was created in June, 1914. Since that time it has grown to the proportion of a true conserva- tory of music. It not only prepares teachers for the grade schools and high schools of Western Kansas, but also prepares teachers and artists in the various applied musical subjects. In the Applied Music De- partment instruction is offered in piano, pipe organ, voice, violin, and other orchestral instruments, cornet, and other band instru- ments. A complete theoretical course is offered. An orchestra and a band is maintained by the school which are open to any students who have sufficient ability. By far the greatest effort of the Music Department was the organization of a Music Festival Week. Membership in the Fes- tival Chorus is also open to any student who desires to belong. Many of the world’s greatest artists have been heard in Western Kansas at this Festival, which has been organized in such a man- ner as to become a permanent thing. A Boys’ Glee Club and a Girls’ Glee Club are promised for next year. Various operettas are given from time to time. In this manner the student body is acquainted with the best of the world’s musical literature. Page Twenty-Seven (